Friday, September 28, 2007

Here is a round-up of today's Bestiaria Latina blog activity (you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives). Have a good weekend, everybody!

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 150, a group of proverbs featuring fourth declension nouns and third conjugation verbs.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

RomanSudoku.com: Today I decided to revive a dormant blog: Roman Sudoku. Yes, it's Sudoku played with Roman numerals: enjoy! You can visit the blog for a larger version, easier to print out and play! Here's a small image of the puzzle:

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is In medio stat veritas. In English: The truth stands in the middle. Listen to the audio, and read a little sermon about "truth" from a Latin textbook for beginning students published in 1818!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Cane oves domini sui occidente, a quo suspensus est: The Dog who slew his master's sheep and was hanged by him. In other words: with friends like that, who needs enemies? Ha!

LatinCrossword.com: This Latin crossword puzzle goes with the story of the dog and his master's sheep (see above). Below is a smaller image of the crossword; visit LatinCrossword.com for a larger version you can print along with a word list, clues, and the solution, too.

Monday, September 24, 2007

I hope everybody had a great weekend! Here is a round-up of today's Bestiaria Latina blog posts (you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives).

Latina Carolina: In the latest post, I've provided 30 proverbs specially selected for Capitulum I of the Lingua Latina: Familia Romana textbook. Based on the progression of grammar as presented in the textbook, I'll create a similar list of 30 proverbs for each chapter.

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes Ex verbis fatuum, ex sonitu cognoscimus ollas, a saying that always makes me think of the English truism, "Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt!"

Friday, September 21, 2007

Here is a round-up of today's new Bestiaria Latina blog post (you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives). Have a great weekend!

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes the "Lay's Potato Chips" mantra in Latin, Morsus morsum ducit - one bite leads to another!

Thursday, September 20, 2007

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 149, a group of proverbs featuring third conjugation verbs and fourth declension nouns. You will find here the very wise observation, Non uno ictu arbor cadit - it takes more than one blow to fell a tree!

LatinCrossword.com: This Latin crossword puzzle goes with the story by Abstemius about a donkey who receives an unwelcome visit from some solicitous wolves! Below is a smaller image of the crossword; visit LatinCrossword.com for a larger version you can print along with a word list, clues, and the solution, too.

Monday, September 17, 2007

This weekend we passed the midway point of September, striking fear into my soul since I have a book project I am supposed to finish by the end of September (the Vulgate Verses book, which is a follow-up to Latin Via Proverbs), and beginning in October I have a new book project that is going to be very time-consuming (an edition of Barlow's Aesop... with illustrations!).

So, given that I need to do some re-budgeting of my time, I'll be following a different schedule for the blogging here. Instead of publishing each of the Bestiaria Latina blogs each day, I'll just focus on doing one or two blogs per day. That will give me something to share each day of the week, but also give me some more time to work on FINISHING these books! Meanwhile, you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives.

So, here are the blogs that were updated today:

Latina Carolina: In the latest post you will find links to some QUIA games and quizzes for the first chapter of Lingua Latina: Familia Romana. The QUIA chapter quiz uses a variety of question models that test comprehension of the Latin without ever asking for an English translation - a quizzing strategy that I think is very compatible with the wonderful Lingua Latina textbook.

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De patre filium ad virtutes frustra hortante: A Father, urging his son, in vain, to practice the virtues. This fable is more sad than funny: it does not have much of a story to tell, although it shows that for hundreds of years fathers and sons have been having trouble communicating! Father may know best... but what if son doesn't listen?

Friday, September 14, 2007

Here is a round-up of today's Bestiaria Latina blog posts (you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives). Have a good weekend, everybody - and I'll "see" you on Monday!

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is Auream mediocritatem diligo. In English: I cherish the golden mean. Listen to the audio, and read about the positive Latin sense of "mediocrity" as immortalized in one of Horace's Odes.

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes a medieval version of "clothes do not make the man," Habitus non facit monachum.

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 148, a group of proverbs featuring third conjugation verbs with fourth declension nouns.

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Lupo ovis pelle induto, qui gregem devorabat: The Wolf in sheep's clothing, who devoured the flock. There are many fables about the shepherd and the wolf, and this is one of my favorites!

Here is an illustration of today's fable by Francis Barlow, from his great seventeenth-century edition of Aesop:

Thursday, September 13, 2007

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is Stulti est compedes, licet aureas, amare. In English: It is for a fool to love fetters, even though they be golden. Listen to the audio, and see how this saying entered into the emblematic tradition, including both Whitney and Alciato.

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes the Latin equivalent of teaching an old dog new tricks, Tardum est annosos discere vincla canes.

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 147, a group of proverbs featuring third conjugation infinitives, with third declension nouns.

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Agricola quodam et Poeta: A Certain Farmer and a Poet. This is a fable that I can really appreciate, often having preferred the company of a book to some intruder (yes, I screen all phone calls...). :-)

LatinCrossword.com: This Latin crossword puzzle goes with the story of the poet and the farmer (see above). Below is a smaller image of the crossword; visit LatinCrossword.com for a larger version you can print along with a word list, clues, and the solution, too.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Here is a round-up of today's Bestiaria Latina blog posts (you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives). As per the usual schedule for this semester, I'm awfully busy on Wednesday, so I will see you again on Thursday!

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is Non faciunt meliorem equum aurei freni. In English: Golden reins do not make a better horse. Listen to the audio, and read about this saying in Seneca, along with a related Aesop's fable about a horse and a donkey.

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes Inter os et offam multa cadunt, "There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip."

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 146, the very last group of proverbs featuring third declension nouns and third conjugation verbs.

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Sene ob impotentiam libidinem carnis relinquente: The Old Man who gave up his carnal pleasures on account of impotence. This is one of Abstemius's little fables denouncing religious hypocrisy. I'll just note that there are some risque fables to be found in Aesop as well! :-)

I don't have a crossword today (the wonderful website I use to create those is offline tonight apparently - I sure hope it comes back!). UPDATE: The Crossword Puzzle generator site came back up, so here is the Crossword for Abstemius's De Sene.

Meanwhile, I've included here the image that accompanies the story of the horse and the donkeky (see above) in Barlow's Aesop.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Here is a round-up of today's Bestiaria Latina blog posts - along with SOMETHING NEW.

I've recently met a wonderful high school student, the son of some friends, who wants to learn Latin. So, this weekend we started our new weekly Latin adventure. Of course I've created a blog to go along with that, so if you are interested in seeing the handouts and other materials we are using, check out the Latina Carolina blog (so named in honor of the back porch of our home in North Carolina where this event is taking place). The blog is a way for me to be able to interact with the student online during the week while he is studying on his own before our next sessions - but I also hope it will be a good way for us to share our experience with Latin teachers and students at large.

So there will now be a new entry to the list of blogs appearing in the Bestiaria "round-up" each day: the Latina Carolina blog.

Latina Carolina: In the first posts at the blog, you can access via Google Documents our first week's handouts - Latin Alphabet and Syllables, the first group of Latin Proverbs with vocabulary, plus the first group of Vulgate Verses with vocabulary, along with homework assignments. Other posts provide a link to some great Wheelock audio for Latin alphabet and syllables, plus a link to a set of QUIA flashcards for the first set of Latin proverbs.

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is Anulus aureus in naribus suis. In English: A gold ring in a pig's nose. Listen to the audio, and read about this Latin equivalent to our English saying, "putting lipstick on a pig."

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes Sero sapiunt Phryges, a great little saying about the Trojans who realized their mistake with the Trojan Horse too late to save themselves.

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Lepore sese Vulpi praeferente ob pedum velocitatem: The Rabbit boasting about his swift-footedness to the Fox. This is the kind of Aesop's fable which is more like a proverb than a fable - to go along with the dialogue here, we need a little plot showing the rabbit being captured by dogs while the fox escapes by some sly trick!

LatinCrossword.com: This Latin crossword puzzle goes with the story of the rabbit and the fox (see above). Below is a smaller image of the crossword; visit LatinCrossword.com for a larger version you can print along with a word list, clues, and the solution, too.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Here is a round-up of today's Bestiaria Latina blog posts (you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives). Have a great weekend, everybody!

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is Asinus asino et sus sui pulcher. In English: One donkey is beautiful to another, one pig is beautiful to another. Listen to the audio, and read a great little fable about the toad who needed to send a pair of slippers (!) to his son, special delivery.

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes a saying in praise of the "golden mean," Auream mediocritatem diligo.

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 145, a group of proverbs featuring, of course, third conjugation verbs and third declension nouns.

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Erinaceo Viperam hospitem eiiciente: The Hedgehog who tossed out his host, the Viper. I love this fable: who would have thought you could feel sorry for a viper? But yes: the hedgehog is the bad guy in this one!

LatinCrossword.com: This Latin crossword puzzle goes with the story of the hedgehog and the viper (see above). Below is a smaller image of the crossword; visit LatinCrossword.com for a larger version you can print along with a word list, clues, and the solution, too.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is Dicunt enim et non faciunt. In English: For they speak, and do not do it. Listen to the audio, and ponder this great little saying about hypocrites from the Gospel of Matthew.

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes that famous saying of Diogenes carrying his lamp, Hominem quaero.

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 144, a group of proverbs featuring even more third conjugation verbs and third declension nouns.

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Cochlea petente ab Iove ut suam domum secum ferre posset: About the Snail, petitioning Zeus so that she could carry her house along with her. My sympathies are definitely with the hermit snail and her choice (I don't live in an RV that I take around with me, but I do live way out in the countryside, for reasons rather like the snail's!).

LatinCrossword.com: This Latin crossword puzzle goes with the story of the snail and Zeus (see above). Below is a smaller image of the crossword; visit LatinCrossword.com for a larger version you can print along with a word list, clues, and the solution, too.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Here is a round-up of today's Bestiaria Latina blog posts (you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives). Normally I don't post on Wednesdays because of my schedule this semester, but I thought I would make up for Labor Day today! :-)

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is De asini umbra disputant. In English: They're arguing about the donkey's shadow. Listen to the audio, and read about how Demosthenes used a story about the donkey's shadow to make a very pointed point about the unprofessional judges hearing his case in court.

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes the Latin equivalent of "getting blood from a stone," A pumice aquam petis.

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 143, a group of proverbs featuring, yes, you guessed it: more third conjugation verbs and third declension nouns.

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Mure liberante Milvum: The Mouse Who Freed The Kite. This is one of those "no good deed goes unpunished fables." In other words: the story of my life! Ha ha.

LatinCrossword.com: This Latin crossword puzzle goes with the story of the good-willed, misguided little mouse (see above). Below is a smaller image of the crossword; visit LatinCrossword.com for a larger version you can print along with a word list, clues, and the solution, too.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

I hope everybody had a nice LONG three-day weekend! Here is a round-up of today's Bestiaria Latina blog posts (you can browse through previous round-ups at the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives).

AudioLatinProverbs.com: Today's proverb is Induis me leonis exuvium. In English: You are dressing me in a lion's skin. Listen to the audio, and read about Hercules, and also about the fable of the donkey in the lion's skin.

AudioLatin.com: Here is the audio for 10 more Latin proverbs - just the audio, but there is a link to a page where you can get English translations and commentary on the proverbs, too. Today's group includes the Latin equivalent of "when the cat's away, the mice play," Audacem reddit felis absentia murem..

LatinViaProverbs.com: I'm continuing to work on the online guide to the Latin Via Proverbs book, with grammar notes and English translations, working through the book group by group. Today I've posted notes for Group 142, a group of proverbs featuring yet more third conjugation verbs with third declension nouns (I forgot just how many of these there were!).

LatinViaFables.com: I'm continuing to work my way through the 15th-century Latin fables of Abstemius! With each fable I'm posting the Latin text, a segmented Latin text, along with an English translation by me, plus the rollicking 17th-century translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Today's fable is De Lupo suadente histrici, ut tela deponeret: The Wolf Persuading the Hedgehog to lay down his weapons. This is a parable of what you could call the "Cold War" between the hedgehog and the fox! No weapons reductions for the hedgehog, no matter what the pretend-peacenik wolf might tell him. :-)

LatinCrossword.com: This Latin crossword puzzle goes with the story of the wolf and the hedgehog (see above). Below is a smaller image of the crossword; visit LatinCrossword.com for a larger version you can print along with a word list, clues, and the solution, too.